[ARROW-646] Cache miniconda packages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: Continuous Integration
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/16271
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Uwe Korn
• Created: 17/Mar/17 07:40
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:10
• Resolved: 12/Apr/17 19:51

Description

The unpacking of freshly downloaded conda packages makes up significant time in our build. Locally this made the conda env creation for Parquet go from 1min to 14s.

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-670 Arrow 0.3 release